Nintendo’s Famicom still gets releases 33 years later, like this all-star chiptunes album

Collectors of the Famicom, the Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System, just received a new cartridge to try and add to their collection. But it this one isn’t a game.

Columbus Circle, a Japanese manufacturer and retailer of various gaming products, announced it’s releasing 8-Bit Music Power, a new album featuring some legendary old-school game musicians who have worked on titles such as Xevious, Star Hector, Pac-Land, and Summer Carnival 92′ Recca. These retro game artists are also teaming up with current chiptune genre talent such as Prof. Sakamoto, Tappy, and Saitone. The thing is, this album is on a Famicom cartridge. In order to play the album, players need a working Famicom. Westerners require either an Famicom adaptor for their NES or one of several retro game-playing systems, such as the Retron 5.

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